The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
Scieszka and Lane Smith take nine fairy tales apart, joke by joke, while Jack, the narrator, keeps losing the pages.
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The Stolen Heir
Feral ex-queen Suren joins Prince Oak on a frozen quest to stop her mother, Lady Nore.
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The Stone Sky
A dying mother and her angry daughter pull at the Obelisk Gate while the lost moon returns to end the Seasons.
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The Stonekeeper
After their father's death, Emily and Navin chase a monster into a hidden world to save their mother, and Emily's great-grandfather's amulet offers power at a…
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The Stopover
A one night stopover fling turns awkward when she learns the arrogant stranger is her new billionaire boss. Banter, trips, and jealous rows follow in this…
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The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
A widowed bookseller on Alice Island adopts abandoned toddler Maya, rebuilds Island Books, and finds love with sales rep Amelia before illness closes in.
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The Storm
A struggling innkeeper, a returning murder suspect, and a true crime writer collide as another hurricane bears down on the Alabama coast.
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The Storm Sister
Ally D'Aplièse loses her father and her lover within weeks, then follows a brass frog and a Norwegian biography into Anna Landvik's music and the world of…
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The Story of a New Name
Married Lila and student Elena grow apart and collide again across shops, Ischia, and Pisa.
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The Story of Art
Gombrich traces art from cave painting to modernism with clear stories and famous images.
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
A mute boy on a Wisconsin dog-breeding farm relives Hamlet as his uncle returns, his father dies in the barn, and the dogs inherit what is left.
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The Story of Ferdinand
A gentle Spanish bull would rather smell flowers than fight, and when he is taken to the bullring he simply sits down among the flowers in the ladies' hats.
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The Story of My Life
Deafblind Keller learns water at pump through Sullivan finger spelling.
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The Story of the Lost Child
Elena and Lila age through motherhood, quakes, and a vanishing.
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The Storyteller
Baker Sage Singer is asked by old Josef Weber to kill him for his SS past, while her grandmother Minka's war story weighs on her.
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The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
Foo Fighters frontman recalls Nirvana, drumming, fatherhood, and life on the road.
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The Storyteller's Secret
A New York journalist goes to India to learn why her grandmother loved a British officer, and why a family servant kept the truth for forty years.
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
A London lawyer traces a violent stranger to his respectable friend in Stevenson's 1886 tale of two selves.
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The Stranger
Meursault buries his mother, kills a man on an Algiers beach, and faces trial for seeming to feel nothing.
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The Stranger Beside Me
Ann Rule's classic memoir of her friendship with Ted Bundy, written by the true-crime author who knew him long before the world learned what he had done.
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The Street Lawyer
Michael Brock survives a hostage morning at his rich D.C. firm, then quits for a street clinic after learning a buried eviction file cost a mother and kids…
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Blogger Mark Manson argues for fewer cares held better, through suffering, values, failure and saying no, with raw stories.
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The Subtle Knife
Will finds a window to Cittagazze, meets Lyra, and both hunt the knife that cuts between worlds.
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The Summer I Turned Pretty
Belly spends another Cousins summer torn between Conrad and Jeremiah Fisher.
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